Late yesterday evening, the BEA was informed by the Venezuelan authorities responsible for the technical investigation that the flight recorders from the Colombian airplane will be sent to France in the near future. The investigators from both countries, along with the judicial authorities, are now engaged in preparing the conditions for this transfer.

The work will of course begin with tests to ascertain whether the recorders functioned normally and to ensure that the data was not destroyed by the accident. The data will then be read out, decoded and presented in a format that will be useable for the investigation.